Sophia Stanger

Today I chanced upon a comment  about my great-great grandmother, Sophia Stanger, which I had written on another blogging site . - Warrimoo history.

In the process I was reminded that I had set up this blogging space some years ago.

I had completely forgotten about it.

But I may start writng to it again because it does let me write wiithout compromising my privacy like I feel facebook and twitter do - and I don't have accounts there.

In the early 1980s, long before the internet, I bought a Commodore 64 computer. It came with a casset recorder - no floppy disk or hard disks - and no software was available when I bought it.  So I made my own  - and I soldered up a contraption that I enabled me to hook it up to a modem. - 125 bits one way and 300 bits the other -- we didn't know about Megabytes or Gigabytes then!.

Anyway, I signed up with a service known as fidonet where we discussed how to use our computers and I also found some people interested in genealogy.

The stuff I wrote there is STILL be found on the internet.  Much of it is wrong. Much of it identified me and my family and much of it I wish I had never written.  It is impossible to delete it now.

That's why I don't use facebook, instagram, twitter - and I'm reluctant to try blogging.

I like personal, one-to-one communication - and that's the only communication I really need.

I'll be interested to learn if anyone ever reads this .  It is likely, anyway, that it and my blogging account will soon be deleted.

Bye from Me